From: Federico Heinz <fheinz@vialibre.org.ar>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Andrew Paprocki" <andrew@ishiboo.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dz@debian.org, "Andy Spencer" <spenceal@rose-hulman.edu>
Subject: Re: i8k: fails to detect Dell XPS M1530, fails to get SMM BIOS version with force=1
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:25:39 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081221212539.1fa72bd8@lauren> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081221144109.2ed26cf2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On 21/12/2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> I can find no copies of them with Signed-off-by: lines so they appear to
> have escaped. If the authors of those changes would care to provided
> Signed-off-by: lines I'll chase this up further.
This trivial patch adds support for i8k on the new Dell Vostro models.
I tested it on my Vostro 1400, and it works. It does print a warning
when loading the module:
i8k: unable to get SMM BIOS version
But I couldn't figure out how to fix that. The module seems to work fine,
anyway...
Signed-off-by: Federico Heinz <fheinz@vialibre.org.ar>
--- drivers/char/i8k.c.orig 2007-07-08 20:32:17.000000000 -0300
+++ drivers/char/i8k.c 2007-09-27 03:06:08.000000000 -0300
@@ -439,6 +439,13 @@
DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Latitude"),
},
},
+ {
+ .ident = "Dell Vostro",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Vostro"),
+ },
+ },
{ }
};
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-21 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-18 0:34 Andrew Paprocki
2008-12-18 1:07 ` Andrew Paprocki
2008-12-18 6:22 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-18 7:53 ` Andrew Paprocki
2008-12-21 20:05 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-21 14:41 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-21 23:25 ` Federico Heinz [this message]
2008-12-22 0:09 ` Andy Spencer
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